A day to just be tourists!!!! We were taken out to a local safari park to just enjoy the day. After working at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, where they had 3 savannahs with animals as part of the African theming, seeing more animals was not really that impressive to me. I was really enjoying some down time because we had just been going non-stop all week. I had been getting up early every morning, but not really feeling the presence of God. I was just goin...

By now, I am actually back in the States but trying to get these blogs completed since I promised to. I was trying to get up to date on everything that was going on Friday during our trip and blew out my converter. Wednesday was the highlight of my trip! With only a few month notice, World Vision was able to coordinate a visit between me and my sponsor child, Elevanie. I have only been a sponsor since January, so this was an amazing blessing to me. I had cho...

Our last day in Rwanda :( :( :( :( The morning was spent shopping. The widows brought some of their homemade goods and had them laid out for us in the morning. I am not sure the reasoning behind it, but until 11:30 am, all residents were not to go outside of their village. It was a time to focus on cleaning their home and helping out their neighbors. A few of the widows spent the night before at Solace so that we would be able to shop in the morning. I s...

Day Three (Tuesday) was an extremely long and trying day for the entire team. We had the honor of being invited as special guests to a funeral. A woman currently in Parliament has had her husband remains identified after all these years since the genocide. The couple was very close friends with the two men who run Solace Ministries. They even wanted us to perform a song during the ceremony, which considering the language barrier, not sure how much they unders...

Day Two (Monday) started with us taking a tour of the pharmacy and the medical clinic that was on the Solace grounds. They are in the process of builing/fixing up a new clinic that would be in the city and have a deadline of August to have it up and running. For the clinic, they are needing doctors and especially specialists to donate their time and services to provide surgery options to the local widows and orphans who cannot afford it. Then, we traveled to o...